On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Chirag wrote:
> > > Redhat is a totally different quality however (kitchen sink quality does > > apply for redhat). > > > > > > I am frustrated that you have ignored my main point. The point is > it is unlinuxy to use such comments and alas, you are using such > comments as well!. . Distributions doesn't grow > at the expense of each other but by doing bug fixes for others! > Although Caldera may be overwhelmed by the fact that their own failure to > promote DR DOS as the best DOS 'distribution' in the past was > inflicted by unfair competition from Microsoft and so are doing the > same marketing strategy to other competitors > > Well kitchen sink quality does apply for RedHat in a way. > Just have a look at their home page. It does look like stacks of utensils > placed at > the kitchen sink I wonder how they are going to promote 150$ > Web server products with such a terrible looking web site.. > In contrast Caldera's web page is a charm and that is exactly > how that I read so deep and found about the ugly remarks. > > By the way RedHat 6.2 beta announce contains some controversial > comment as well. Naming the release as Piglet, from the Winnie the > Pooh , the announcement says 'This bad boy eats lizards and > spits out kernel patches' and incidenltly caldera's installation program > is named Lizard (for Linux Wizard). > > Sure we should ignore these kind of ugly things. But I fear > that these things may grow into something uncontrollable that > Linus Torvalds may be forced to review the License. Well, I think your main point was to help each other and not hinder or speak bad about one another, either personally nor distribution-scale. I think that helping one necessarily involves telling him/her their errors. Unfortunately some distributions do this in a rather rude way... And the other sad fact is that Redhat does not take the suggestions too well, since they don't really improve the quality of their distribution. The other thing you mentioned about actively discrediting other distributions, is of course totally unacceptable from any distribution creator. By the way, there IS a certain resemblance to the marketing strategy of Micro$oft in the marketing strategy of some Linux distributors... I won't mention names, but I think you will catch my point... And well.. there are companies which tend to commit the same errors more than one times... Robert Varga
